“It is pretty amazing,” said Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan. “I remember when we started talking about sales numbers that we would be super happy to sell 1 million copies. That would have put us on par with Battlefield 1943 and Castle Crashers, which both are awesome games, so that was something to aim for.

“We never even dreamed of selling 12 million.” Kaplan also said that Minecraft: Xbox One Edition “is coming, eventually.” A PS4 version of the game is also in the works.